I get by with a little help from my friends

I’ve officially hit the point where my work ethic has surpassed the physical limitations of my body, because between comics and crazy work hours and con appearances I am quite literally falling apart. After I managed to catch an incapacitating eye infection (don’t stare at a cintiq for twenty hours and wear contacts and rub your eyes a lot, kids) and a head cold (don’t work twenty hour days, kids) within two days of each other, the amazing and wonderful Scott DeWitt of the fabulous webcomic, Fanboys came to my rescue so I didn’t have to stress out over how to draw a comic while simultaneously being a blind puddle of goo and working overtime. So check out Scott’s comic! And his Tumblr! And hell, check out his brother’s Tumblr while you’re at it because he’s a cool dude too!

And to offer my apologies for abdicating my duties of a webcomicist, here is a Commander Mii I made that you can pal around with on your 3DSes or WiiUs or whatever will scan this.

SPOILER ALERT: He’s actually just come from kicking the shit out of himself way back in strip #58. Nothing bad ever happens, he’s just pro-actively stopping Jared’s stupid idea without ruining the surprise party for himself.

Commander likes to get his ‘Timeline-Fixing Bullshit’ out of the way all in one go so it’s easier to keep track of and he doesn’t have to spend months at a time thinking about where/when he is/was/supposed to be.

You say that, but uh, his shoulder is on fire, and I’m pretty sure that didn’t come from beating the crap out of himself over coffee. I reckon he came back from after the party, which (being full of the biggest, most macho badasses in modern media) turned into an insane melee brawl. So he is shutting it down before it ever gets started.

No worries, Squid. Take your time. Your comics are like dessert. We immensely enjoy them, but we can live without them. If it’s proving too much for you, why not take a break? Maybe host a month of guest comics again?

Your first duty is to yourself. If you wear yourself to nothing, you’ll burn out. Next time, get some guest comics to cover a con, and go to twice a week updates if work is eating you alive. It’s not worth killing yourself over something you put out for free.

No, your first thought is quite correct. It’s not that Soldier wouldn’t fit in. It’s that he already has a job, doesn’t he? Fighting clones of himself and his coworkers wearing different colored uniforms. Or fighting robots. That bleed money for some reason.

Canonically since the events of ‘A Fate Worse than Chess’ the TF2 mercs are technically unemployed. A few stick around and continue making money fighting robots, but the rest probably looked for work elsewhere.

He did in the ’50s, but what about now? Surely the Mann fortune ran out at some point, squandered as it was on gravel. Or, hell, maybe he’s on vacation and likes the company. Mike Haggar’s a big-time politician, and he still drops by to play foosball and smoke cigars sometimes.

Jeez Squid! IRL before the URL. We love Manly Men, but in cases like this, take a week or two off, let your natural squid like powers heal yourself. Put in asking for guest strips like you did that one time if you need to, let yourself recover! From the way you make it sound though, you sound like you could use a vacation in general.

So I read this comic earlier and loved it so I went back and started with your very first one at that was at 9:10 P.M. my time. I just got back to this comic it is now 4:18 A.M. my time….BEST 7 HOURS OF MY LIE!!! Keep up the awesome work.

We know from the coffee incident that the Commander doesn’t do paradox. So the only logical conclusion has to be that he punched himslef in the face several times, set himself on fire and then went back in time to ask for an ice-cream cake.

That would actually be pretty damn badass. He could teach it to ride his shoulder like a parrot, then when he needs to burninate something – like to light a cigar, or torch down a mansion full of Chthonic books – he can use the fire he has on his shoulder.

So cute, my Duke Nukem Mii started a fight with Commander’s Mii over my desktop table next to a wild triceratops and my Zekrom figure. Can’t fathom the consequences of downloading this badass Mii. Can you make a Jared for the sake of sidekick completion? =P

Hope you get some well deserved rest and get well soon. It is nice to know you have helpers for these situations ^^ I’ll make sure to pay a visit to their sites :)

Oh my. How embarrassing. I’ve read this three comic three or four times, and only just got the joke. I thought Commander was shouting “time!”. Like, as in, ‘time out’. Or something. And he was beat up because he was sick… you know, because that makes total sense.

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